A former Houston elementary school teacher who went to Texas Southern University with the late Houston congressman Mickey Leland may end up as a juror in the retrial of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens.

The potential female juror, a woman who recently retired from a management position in Washington, was accepted into the final pool of 36 prospective jurors this morning.

The woman said she had heard of the accusations against Clemens’ regarding his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. Still, she said she could be fair to the famed baseball player because “everyone is starting from day one.”

Clemens is not being tried for whether he use steroids. Instead, prosecutors pressed charges against him for lying to Congress during a 2008 hearing about his alleged use of drugs. If convicted, Clemens could face up to 30 years in prison.

The juror also questioned whether Congress’ authority includes investigating baseball.

“If it’s a medical-enhancing drug, it should be a doctor involved (in the investigation),” she said, adding that members of Congress “aren’t experts” on every subject.

She said to be aware of baseball superstar Barry Bonds case related to his supposed use of steroids. Bonds was convicted in 2011 for lying to a grand jury about using steroids and human growth hormone.

Houston Rep. Mickey Leland fought global hunger -- as well as apartheid in South Africa -- during his years in Congress. (Getty Images)

The juror, who moved to Virginia in the 1970s, now actively plays golf, works at the Kennedy Center for the Arts and does volunteer work in the area.

During questioning by Clemens’ attorney Rusty Hardin, the juror said she had been in the same class as Leland, a Texan who went on to become a state legislator and legendary congressman. She said they were friends in college, lived in the same Houston-area neighborhood and remained friends after he was elected to Congress.

“I thought he was a great congressman,” the potential juror recalled.

Leland, an anti-poverty activist who became chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and the leader of anti-hunger efforts in Congress, died in a plane crash in 1989 while on a humanitarian mission to fight famine in war-torn Ethiopia.

Leland, who replaced another Texas legend, Barbara Jordan, in the central Houston district, was one of 15 people killed in the crash.

Texas state Sen. Craig Washington was elected to Leland’s unexpired congressional term in December 1989 and served until he was defeated in 1994 by Sheila Jackson Lee, the 18th District’s current representative.